Che'Rae Adams (director/dramturge) is the Producing Artistic Director for the LA Writer's Center. She has been the Development Executive for Playhouse Pictures studios, Co-Artistic Director of the Road Theatre Company and Co-Founder of Two Girls Productions. Focusing primarly on developing and directing new work for over two decades, Che'Rae has worked in development for Showtime Networks, Alliance/Atlantis Film & TV, First Lady Productions, and Melba-Jake Productions. Che'Rae has directed the West Coast premiere productions of several new plays, including Chesapeake by Lee Blessing for Venice Theatre Works; Freak of Nature by Ken Hanes at The Road Theatre Company; Back Bar by Steve Simon and Jose Gregorio, both at the Lee Strasberg Theatre; Fixing Frank by Ken Hanes at the Celebration Theatre; Pandora's Trunk at LATC, starring Kim Fields, and at the National Black Theatre Festival starring Tanya Pinkins. She co-authored and directed Fish Stories, which premiered at the HBO Workspace and went on to the Duplex Cabaret in New York.; My Brooklyn Hamlet at the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival; From Bonkers to Botox, at the Stella Adler Theatre; and Nothing to See Here at the Comedy Central Space. She has also directed for Cincinnati Opera Outreach, Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Highways Performance Space, and the Los Angeles Theatre Festival. In addition, Che'Rae has served on the Board of Directors for several theatre organizations such as The Road Theatre Company, Venice Theatre Works, and The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival. She is also an alumni member of the Lincoln Center Director's Lab West.
Jon Bastian (writer/actor) His plays include The Heretics of AlexandraNew Century Writer Award Finalist; Noah Johnson had a Whore... at South Coast Repertory, Winner of the SCR California New Plays Prize, and DramaLogue Award Winner for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting, and a PEN West Literary Award Drama Nominee; Petty Treasons at the Audrey-Skirball Kenis Theatre and The Road Theatre (produced by Che'Rae Adams), nominated for three Valley Theatre League Awards; Bill & Joan, a Lois and Richard Rosenthal Playwriting Prize Finalist; and A Perfectly Natural Explanation, produced at the Rose Theatre, Theatre/Theater, and other venues. An invited participant in the Lincoln Center West Directors Lab, the Actors Alley Playwright's Lab, and the Filmmakers Foundation Writers Project, Mr. Bastian was also awarded a Fellowship to the Chesterfield Writers Film Project, sponsored by Steven Spielberg. As Co-Director and Founder of The Golden West Playwrights, and Founder and Emeritus Member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, he has been a proactive creator of organizations that support, advocate and help to develop plays and playwrights. He was also a company member and regular performer with The Company Rep theatre, where he appeared as a riverdancing Irish cop in The Comedy of Errors and a depressed, unicycle riding bear in John Irving's The Pension Grillparzer, among others. Uncharacteristically, he wrote for the television series Seventh Heaven, and co-wrote both the omnibus feature Random Shooting in LA, and the award-winning short film Who Gets to Water the Grass?
Ben Brown (actor/writer) has been seen recently on TV in CSI, The West Wing, In Justice, Safari Tracks and Without a Trace. Film appearances include Liar Liar, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and theatre work includes The Color of Water at the ART, Blood at the Edinburgh Festival, Gunplay at Naked Angeles, and My Children, My Africa at the Anneberg Center.
Colm Byrne (writer) is originally from Limerick, Ireland and now living in Los Angeles. Colm's plays have been produced in Vienna, Prague, London, Galway, New York and Los Angeles. His most recent play Himself had an extended off-Broadway run. His work has received critical acclaim, including an Outer Critics Circle award. He is currently adapting his latest play, Choke Point, for the screen. He is a member of the Los Angeles Writer's Center and a student of Che'Rae's, which makes him qualified to comment on her lectures and the pros and cons of each and every lesson in the book. He has applied the tools that the book presents to his work over the last year and therefore knows the pitfalls and benefits of them.
Alexis Chamow (director/dramaturge/actor) has worked with Austin Script Works, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, Living Voices, Unexpected Productions, Los Angeles Center Theatre Group, Pasadena Playhouse, L.A.Connection, St. Louis Center for Contemporary Art, Edison Theatre, Northwestern's National High School Institute and Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London, and the Theatre Royal Bath, Youth Theatre. She has adapted and directed multiple scripts for young performers, facilitated ensemble-generated new work, created subject-specific drama intensives for theatres and schools, and acted with both equity and non-equity companies. Casting work has included assisting with premieres at the La Jolla Playhouse, as well as for the new CBS drama The Unit, written by David Mamet.
Lauren Clark (actor/producer) is also a member of the Road Theatre Company, where she produced and understudied the acclaimed production of Marked Tree and performed in The Pagans and The Pearl Necklace. Lauren is originally from Worthington (Columbus), Ohio, and owes all her love for the theatre to her high school drama teacher, Mrs. Bronwyn Hopton, and to her dad, who arranged "father-daughter dates to the theatre" at least once a month. Lauren is a graduate of Ball State University, and is proud to have been one of the lead actors in Made for You, the first original sitcom produced in conjunction with the film and theatre departments at BSU. She received an Irene Ryan nomination for her performance in the stage version of the show. Upon graduation, Lauren has performed off-Broadway, all over the Chicago area, and in various regional theatres throughout the mid-west, California, and Los Angeles.
Michael Dempsey (actor) originally from Cleveland Ohio, is also a member of the Road Theatre Company, where is has been in several productions, including the award-winning Bunbury. Some of Michael's notable TV appearances have been on Boston Legal and ER.
Evan D'Angeles is honored to be a new member of the LA Writers Center. Evan was last seen in the San Francisco (west coast premiere) and Boston productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, where he understudied and played the roles of Chip Tolentino, Mitch "Mendoza" Mahoney, and William Barfee. He was last seen on broadway in the 2004-05 revival of Pacific Overtures for the Roundabout Theater Company, where he revised the role of Warrior/Officer/British Admiral. He was honored to reprise Stephen Sondheim's favorite song, "Someone in a Tree" for the new cast recording on PS Classics. Other broadway credits include Miss Saigon, Children & Art: A Tribute to 75 years of Stephen Sondheim. Off-Broadway: Wall to Wall Sondheim. He also played the role of Angel Schunard in the first national tour of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical Rent. Other tours include: Cats (Hamburg), Fame, the Musical (José Vegas), Tommy (Pinball Lad), West Side Story, My Fair Lady. Regional: Imelda1 (world premiere), Songs for a New World (Man 2, directorial-debut), Phantom, Fiddler on the Roof, The King & I, among others. Evan D'Angeles attended Chapman University, where he received a Master of Talent Scholarship and Best Choreographer awards while pursuing a BFA in Communications, with an emphasis in Theater/Dance Performance. Evan D'Angeles is currently writing a new musical and has embarked on a continued career as a writer/director/choreographer. Evandangeles.com
John DiFusco (writer/director/actor) created the landmark Vietnam drama Tracers, which he first directed at the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, followed by a highly acclaimed run at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre in New York. Directorial credits include the long-running Road Theatre production of White People, which received "Critic's Choice" in both the Los Angeles Times and DramaLogue, was awarded five Valley Theatre League Awards, and nominated for two Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Awards; Ali, and Will Strip for Food, which between them were the L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week, and garnered raves from Variety, Hollywood Reporter, and the Los Angeles Times. Other directing credits include Police Officers' Wives at the Ventura Court Theatre; the award-winning a cappella musical Avenue X at the Odyssey Theatre; Cut Poison & Burn at Chicago's Mary Archie Theatre; Joan and the Zulus (with Grace Zabriskie); Aftershock, Love or Something out on Hwy. 97 at the Cast Theater; Hair at the Heliotrope Theatre; Fragging at the New Playwrights Foundation; and Jack Ruby Is My Idol for the Mark Taper Forum's New Works Festival. He recently worked as a director/part-time faculty member at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. During his career, DiFusco has also been the recipient of the New York Drama Desk Award, The Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Award, two L.A. Weekly awards, two NAACP Awards, a Drama-Logue Award, a Robby Award, the USAF Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service in Viet Nam and two Valley Theatre League Artistic Director Awards. He is currently developing a solo piece with director/dramturge Che'Rae Adams and John Densmore (The Doors) on percussion.
Marc Ewing (actor/writer) is a classically trained, award-winning actor who was inspired to take on the stage by watching his father, who was an Opera singer. Marc trained at Herbert Berghof Studios in NY with Earle Hyman, spent two seasons with The National Shakespeare Company, has played Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire, Petrucchio in The Taming of the Shrew and many others. Marc won LA Weekly award for Stage Directions, and has been nominated for NAACP, Ovations, and others. TV co-star roles on Cold Case, and a recurring role on All My Children. As writer/director, he has written several verse plays, plays in prose, short stories, sonnets, and screenplays, and directed productions of Hamlet, Macbeth (set in Uganda), and several showcases. Marc continues to work with the Robey Theatre Co. on several projects a year, and is an accomplished and published furniture designer.
Michelle Flowers (actor/writer) Her most recent short film, entitled King's Ring, acquired a distribution deal with Universal Pictures. As an actor, she has performed in numerous venues, including the Celebration Theatre (Hollywood), Santa Monica Playhouse, and as part of several annual festivals, such as the Young Playwrights Summer Series (Philadelphia), and the Philadelphia Black Theatre Festival. A native of the Pacific Northwest, her other professional experiences have included ethnographic and documentary film research throughout the U.S., and an assistant web editorship with Back Stage West. She completed film production courses at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, holds an undergraduate degree in anthropology and communications from the University of Washington, and a master's degree in anthropology from Temple University. 
Megan Gogerty (writer) Her music-play Love Jerry toured England in association with Dartington College of the Arts in Devon before receiving its world premiere at Actors Express Theatre in Atlanta, where it was the target of a letter-writing campaign by the American Family Association. A national finalist of the Alliance Theatre's Graduate Student Playwriting Competition, it was also performed as part of the mainstage season at the University of Texas at Austin, where it earned seven B. Iden Payne Award nominations including Outstanding Original Script and Outstanding Original Score, and five Austin Critic's Table Award nominations including the David Mark Cohen Award for best new play. Megan's ten-minute play Rumple Schmumple premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC as part of the National American College Theatre Festival, where she was the winner of Atlanta's Dad's Garage Theatre Company 10-Minute Play Residency Award. Rumple Schmumple is included in Dramatic Publishing Co.'s 2005 anthology, Thirty-Five in Ten. Some of Megan's other plays include: Sig Gotta Do (Pasadena Playhouse Hothouse Series 2005), Hobo Season (PlayLabs national finalist, 2005), Pandas, and Fireproof Baby. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. Megan has been a Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellow and was a grateful recipient of the James A. Michener Playwriting Scholarship and the Ellsworth P. and Virginia Conkle Endowed Scholarship for Drama.
Kenneth Hanes (writer) has received numerous grants and awards for his works, including the Artist Trust GAP Award for the film version of Fixing Frank, for which he also won the 1996/97 Seattle Arts Commission Individual Artist Award and was nominated for a Spirit Award for best screenplay. He received the 1998/99 Seattle Arts Commission Individual Artist Award for The Fourth Bird; and two Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Grants, for People with/out AIDS, and AIDS Mirrors. His play Freak of Nature won a second place Los Angeles Playwrights Award in 1994, and was a semi-finalist in the 1992 California Playwrights Competition at South Coast Repertory. Other awards include the 1986 David Library Playwriting Award, for Birth Rite; and the 1985 Ruby Lloyd Apsey Playwriting Competition (Finalist), for Breaking Rules. Mr. Hanes's plays have been produced at the Currican Theatre in New York, the Public Theatre in Ft. Lauderdale, the Annex Theatre in Seattle, and the Celebration Theatre and Road Theatre, Los Angeles (directed by Che'Rae Adams). He has been a playwriting instructor at Indiana University and Bloomington Playwright's Project, and is the author of three published books.
William Katt (writer/director/actor) First appearing with the Tony Award winning South Coast Repertory in 1969, Katt continued in the theatre and has worked many times at such prestigious venues as the Mark Taper Forum, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, as well as staring in productions at The Phoenix Repertory in New York and The George Street Playhouse in New Jersey, among other east coast venues. A personal favorite in his theatre career perhaps was Pippin for video, directed by Bob Fosse. He has more recently shared the stage at ACT in Seattle for The Education of Randy Newman and starred in a world premiere of Bicoastal Woman at the Pasadena Playhouse in L.A.
Mark W Knowles (writer/director) Mark W Knowles's most recent work was Angry Young Teen-Age Girl Gang, an original musical based on a previous play by his dear friend and collaborator, David g Smith (Music and Lyrics). Girl Gang ran for three and a half months in North Hollywood, receiving two ADA awards for Best Book, Music and Lyrics, and Best Ensemble. In 2004, Girl Gang premiered at the NYC International Fringe Festival at the prestigious Lucille Lortel Theatre to very good reviews, and is currently being capitalized for an open ended off-Broadway run under General Management of Martian Entertainment for 2007.Mark and David first collaborated on the original Salt Lake City production of Plan 9 from Outer Space: The Musical. In 1995 Mark staged a new version of Plan 9 in Los Angeles that received considerable critical acclaim, including a "Best Musical" nomination by LA WEEKLY, and an award for Best Costumes with his talented co-producer Jaye Maynard.
Knowles has a varied background in multiple disciplines, including art, music, dance, singing and acting. While pursuing a theatrical career in New York City he produced several video and film projects including The Perfect Woman with Ileana Douglas, which premiered at the New York City Film Festival as the lead short for The Piano.
Mark has also written screenplays, including an unproduced crime drag Noir with partner Mark B. Perry entitled Killer in Drag, which is based on two of Ed Wood's pulp novellas, and soon to be the future musical collaboration with David g Smith. His other Los Angeles directing and collaborative credits include the biographical play Know Your Place by actress Rose Portillo, and Vox with About Productions, which was created for the Telluride Theatre Festival in Colorado.
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Maura Megan Knowles (actor/writer) is an actor and singer whose mix of sass and sophistication have led to a wide range of projects, from her role in the critically-acclaimed rock musical Bare, Franics Ford Coppola's Gidget and Hollywood Revisited (CD available from LML Music), to the CD she recorded with Frank Palmieri. Maura also performed her original cabaret show Get Ready, 'Cause Here I Am at the Cinegrill as a fundraiser for the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Diabetes Association. Putting on her producer cap, Maura co-produced and starred in the critically-acclaimed world premiere of Jay Duffer's play Big Girl Little World at the International Fringe Festival in New York City. Maura has sung all over the country and internationally, including a recent venue in Japan. In the time that Maura has been in Los Angeles, she caught the eye of Warren Beatty, who upgraded her from an extra to a featured role in the film Bulworth, which earned her a SAG card. She has performed lead roles in several independent films including The Yardsale with Anne Meara. She has had guest starring roles on hit television shows Special Victims Unit, Law and Order, E.R., Girlfriends, Titus, Providence, Becker, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Young and the Restless, and a recurring role on the long-running soap The Bold and the Beautiful. A native of Sacramento, California, Maura has been performing since elementary school. Maura continued pursuing her craft and received several scholarships, including an award for Excellence in Musical Theatre Performance from San Francisco State University, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Intercultural Communications, with a minor in Theatre. After receiving a full scholarship to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas, she pursued a Masters of Fine Arts degree. She spent the summers during her college years performing regional theater. She also performed on cruise ships, traveling the Mexican Riviera. 
Christine Krench (actor) graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre, as well as Film/Television. Originally from Michigan, Christine began her career as a dancer teaching and working outside of Detroit. While still in high school, she left home to pursue acting at Walnut Hill School, located outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She has studied and performed at various institutions such as Interlochen Arts Center, Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, The American College Dance Festival and the National Voice Intensive at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Christine continues to work as an actress in various plays, television shows, music videos and films done in Los Angeles and is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild. She is also a professional photographer, and has most recently begun working as a writer.
Kelli McNeil: (writer/actor) graduated from the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Theatre, where she obtained her degree in theatre and minored in visual media. While she was studying, she was privileged enough to attend master classes offered by some of the industry's greatest teachers, including Uta Hagen and Sir Peter Hall. McNeil also attended the Sanford Meisner School of Acting while at USC, where she completed a two year conservatory program. During her junior year, McNeil was awarded a scholarship to attend an acting conservatory at BADA (British American Dramatic Academy). While at USC, McNeil earned lead roles in many plays and short films, including Maria Irene Fornes's award-winning play, Fefu and Her Friends. Upon graduating, McNeil has worked on numerous stage and independent film productions, including Dave Barry's Guide to Guys and The Writer, where she co-starred alongside Emmy winner Terry Becker. A Texas native, McNeil has been recognized as a top-performer by such institutions as ULI, The Donna Reed Foundation and the National Forensics League, of which she has been a member of since the age of 15. McNeil is also an accomplished studio and graphic artist, a talented vocalist, and fluent in American Sign Language. Rob Mersola (writer/actor) received his MFA from Rutgers University's Professional Actor's Training Program under the tutelage of the esteemed William Esper. In New York, Rob began writing and produced his first play, Backseats and Bathroom Stalls, to critical acclaim. The play has since been optioned for a major motion picture by director Jim Fall of Trick and The Lizzie McGuire Movie fame. Since moving to LA, Rob has continued to write and produce his own work with great success, showing at Hollywood's Improv Olympics and the HBO Comedy Space.
Eileen O'Connell (actor) Eileen O'Connell is originally from New York, where she has been seen on Broadway in The Man Who Came to Dinner with Nathan Lane. NY theatre roles include Chrissy in The Boom Boom Room, Fawn in Tom Noonan's original production of What the Hell's Your Problem? and Angela in the off-Broadway premiere of Colm Byrne's hit play Himself. Eileen is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is currently in the performance track at the Groundlings. Film & TV credits include What's Up Scarlet? with Sally Kirkland (to be released), Late Night with Conan O'Brien and Guiding Light.
Marni Penning (actor/writer) is a northern Virginia native and co-founder of the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival, for which she has performed over 35 roles in 10 seasons, including Juliet, Kate, Rosalind, Beatrice, and Hamlet. Her full-length play, Carol's Christmas, has had readings in Pittsburgh, NYC, Washington, DC, and LA. She now resides in New York City, where she has appeared on Saturday Night Live, The Guiding Light, The Sopranos, and Mona Lisa Smile, and was seen onstage most recently in Courtney Baron's short play Not Our Last Hurrah. Marni has performed steadily on New York stages for the past six years, as well as appearing in several short films; regionally, favorite roles include Peg in Six Years (Actors Theatre of Louisville, Humana Festival), Luciana in The Comedy of Errors and Catherine in Lorenzaccio (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC), Ashley in After Ashley and Mom in Big Death and Little Death (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), Helen in Machinal (American Century Theater), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (Georgia Shakespeare), Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Theatre and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival), and Mrs. Manningham in Gaslight (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival).
Nathan Singer (Writer) is a novelist, playwright, composer, and experimental performing artist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed and controversial novel A Prayer for Dawn. His written work has been published across a wide spectrum of print media, from academic journals to underground indie rags. Several of his plays have been brought to life on stage, including the theatrical adaptation of Chasing the Wolf. He currently teaches writing at the University of Cincinnati.
Dale Griffiths Stamos (Writer) Her full-length drama Dialectics of the Heart (recipient of the Jewel Box Theatre award) opened in January 2006 at Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica, and starred Sharon Lawrence and Nicholas Gonzalez. Her one-act and short plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York City and at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she was named co-recipient (with Romulus Linney) of the Heideman Award. Her winning play, The Unintended Video appears in the Samuel French Publication Ten Minute Plays: Volume 4 from Actors Theatre of Louisville, and has been performed worldwide. Her full-length play Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night was workshopped by Actors Alley at the El Portal in North Hollywood. She was also Emmy-nominated for her shared story credit on the afterschool special Words Up! A poet as well, her poetry has been published in numerous literary journals across the nation, including Calyx and Rattle. She is also co-leader of the Dramatic Structure Workshop at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference.
Blaine Teamer (writer) is A Penn State graduate and a former member of The Los Angeles Theater Center's WORDSMITH program. His theatrical works are Momma's Boys (Highways Performance Space, 1994); Black Coffee (1995); Delicate Flowers (Ivar Theater, 1996); Secret Life of Sister Little (Occidental College, 1996); and the highly acclaimed one-woman show performed by Kim Fields, Pandora's Trunk (Los Angeles Theater Center, 2003), was invited to perform at the renowned bi-annual National Black Theater Festival 2003, where Tony Award winner Tonya Pinkins starred and returned in '05 with Kim Fields. His published work includes: Maya: Diasporic Juks (1997); Shady: A Novel (2000); and Riding the Tiger in Cleis Press's Best Black Gay Erotica collection (2004). Teamer is currently a graduate student at Antioch University, majoring in psychology.
Kurt W. Thum (writer) Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Kurt now lives in Redondo Beach, CA, and works as a Sound Editor for film and television. His short play What a Character was produced as part of a 10-minute play festival at the Tamarind Theatre in Los Angeles in 2000. His one-act play Breakthrough was produced at the New California Stage in Sacramento after winning the Regional New Voices Competition in 2001. Another short play, Doctors Like Boats, was produced and published as part of the New Plays Festival at Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina in 2004. Kurt is currently workshopping his full-length dark comedies Circus Dreams and Which One's Tommy? Tim Toyama (writer) wrote a short play called Visas and Virtue about a Japanese diplomat who saved 6,000 Jews from the Holocaust in 1941. The play was subsequently turned into a short film, which won the Academy Award in 1998 in the Live Action Short Film category. Two other short plays are in the process of being turned into short films: Flawless and Independence Day. Tim just finished his second film about the Japanese-Americans' obsession with baseball when they were placed in the World War II internment camps.
Mark Wild (writer) explores the history and drama of modern urban life. He is the author of Hayward, in addition to the non-fiction study Street Meeting (2005). He currently teaches history at California State University Los Angeles and is completing his third play, Faithful Are the Wounds.
Jennifer Williams (writer) is the author of The Real-Life Coach Carter – The Ken Carter Story, worked as script editor on the 2005 release of the movie Coach Carter starring Samuel L. Jackson, and is currently working on her next screenplay, Modern Miracle. Ms. Williams is a working editor with BWUnited in Los Angeles, CA; Member of the Organization of Black Screenwriters (OBS); and serves as the Executive Vice President of Operations for non-profit Coach Ken Carter Foundation as well as Editor-In-Chief of the Foundation Newsletter. Jennifer is the recipient of the 1999 Screenwriter's/Playwright Award. Additionally, she is the author of three novels, Somebody Else's Dream and Why Only At Night, release date pending; and her debut novel, A Soul Captured to be released in early 2007. Ms. Williams resides in Pasadena, CA. Lowell Williams (actor/writer) Won a Best Supporting Actor award as Gately in Pvt. Wars by James McClure for MADCo in 1989. He was a founding member of KISTheater, where nine of his one-act plays were produced in their annual Theatre-by-the-Pool play festival. Other writing credits include finalist in the Chesterfield Film Project (2001), Feeding the Ducks, 2002 AACT Drama Festival winner, Writer for the NH Theatre Awards, and The Warmth of the Cold, winner of the Best Original Play at the NH Theatre Awards, for Yellow Taxi Productions in April 2005. Directing credits include Picasso at the Lapin Agile for the Nashua Theatre Guild in 2003 and Tape for Yellow Taxi in 2004. Lowell holds an MFA from Goddard College and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
Mark McLain Wilson (actor) has been acting professionally for fifteen years. A graduate of the University of Michigan, he has appeared in over sixty plays, working in New York, Los Angeles, several places in between, and internationally in Edinburgh, Scotland. Favorite roles include DeFlores in The Changeling, Pale in Burn This, Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Peter Gibbs in A Vast Wreck, MacDuff in Macbeth, Scooter in Tracers, the title role in King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free>, Mephistopholes in Don Juan in Chicago (L.A. Weekly Award Nominee), and Kennny in the critically acclaimed Red Light, Green Light (L.A. Ovation nominee). His more than twenty-five film credits include The Four Corners of Nowhere (Sundance Dramatic Competition), Whatever Happened to Kathy? (Berlin Film Festival), and the upcoming Poughkeepsie Tapes. TV credits include Guiding Light and U.S.A. Up All Night. Along with being an actor, Wilson is an accomplished writer, director, and sound designer.